Rank and Name, Private First Class Elmer Adkins.

Unit/Placed in, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division “Tropic Lightning “.

Elmer is born in 1920 in Huntington, West Virginia.

Parents and Sibling, No Record Available.

Elmer enlisted the U.S.Army in West Virginia with service number # 36771870.

Elmer was KIA on the Umingan Road near San Jose, Philippines on Feb. 6, 1945, he is honored with a  Purple Heart, Combat Infantry Badge, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

Elmer is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial  Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.

Wall of the missing.

Thanks to https://www.25thida.org/division/wwii-chronology/ Jean Louis Vijgen, ABMC,  https://abmc.gov Info P.O.W.

Wes Injerd, Dwight Rider: http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html

NavyLog, http://navylog.navymemorial.org Philippine Scouts Heritage Society, Sean Conjenos, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/

Familysearch.com, https://www.familysearch.org Navy Marines Info Geoffrey Roecker, https://missingmarines.com/ Medals Info, http://www.honorstates.org Website, https://hendrikswebdesign.nl/